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The Thornaby Angling Association, one of the largest and oldest angling associations in the region with some 650 members, holds fishing rights over stretches of the River Tees derived from a conveyance dated 6 May 1949…
Aerotron Limited applied to resist the recognition and enforcement in England of two Maltese judgments obtained by Hermes Aviation Limited. Hermes had served an Article 53 certificate, demanded payment and threatened a winding up…
CG is a 36 year old woman with a chronic severe psychiatric illness, principally anorexia nervosa, complicated by emotionally unstable personality disorder and features consistent with complex trauma. She has undergone repeated…
The claimants are creditors under two arbitration awards made in London-seated arbitrations. The first claimant, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan ("SOCAR"), is the direct or indirect parent of the other…
The claimants were Wenda Co Ltd, a Chinese company manufacturing and trading in food ingredient chemicals, and its founder and chairman, Mr Xiong Wei. They sought to enforce at common law in England a judgment of the Intermediate…
Alec Finch and his son Robert Finch were directors of AFL Insurance Brokers Limited, a wholesale insurance broker authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority and permitted to hold client money. Alec Finch was appointed a…
The first claimant, KDY, is a 13-year-old boy with autism, ADHD and other diagnosed conditions who has held an Education, Health and Care Plan since November 2018. He sues by his mother, NGP, who is the second claimant in her own…
The claimants, David Abbott and others, are members and former members of HM armed forces bringing many thousands of claims for damages against the Ministry of Defence for noise induced hearing loss. Liability was disposed of by…
The six appellant companies, York SD Limited and others, issued shares to investors under the enterprise investment scheme. Each installed a single rooftop solar panel in the UK, accompanied by an agreement to sell electricity to…
The claimant is the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau); the defendants, Ms Linda Antuan and Ms Nora Chikh Bakr, are former employees whose employment ended in January and March 2023 respectively following a…
Thirteen private investors sued Angus Energy Plc, an oil exploration company, together with five of its individual directors and former directors, for misrepresentation. The claimants each purchased shares in Angus following its…
General Dynamics United Kingdom Limited (GDUK) is a judgment creditor of the State of Libya in the sum of around £28 million. It obtained a final charging order together with an order for sale and possession over a property at 7…
Tesla, Inc, a Texas company, and its English subsidiary Tesla Motors Ltd wished to launch 5G-enabled vehicles in the United Kingdom, their fourth largest market. Implementing the 5G standard set by the European Telecommunications…
Hazelmont (Kent) Limited was the registered provider of a children's home. On 8 May 2026 Ofsted made a decision under section 20B of the Care Standards Act to cancel the company's registration to carry on the home, and the Notice…
The appellant, House for Homes Limited, owned a property at 11A Winchester Road, London E17, which the London Borough of Waltham Forest maintained was required to be licensed. The company's director, Mr Marjan Keqaj, said that he…
The claimant, Mr Andrew Tipping, is a professional photographer of four decades' standing and the co-creator of Max Power, a monthly magazine devoted to performance-tuned and modified cars published between 1991 and 2011 by EMAP…
The second defendant, Hunkemöller International BV, is a Netherlands-based European retailer of intimate apparel. In October 2022 it issued €272,500,000 of Senior Secured 9% Notes under an indenture governed by New York law, the…
The claimants, Mr and Mrs Clarke, were both councillors of Porthcawl Town Council, the first defendant. The second defendant, Mr Brabham, was in effect appointed town clerk and, the claimants say, caused an audit report to be…
The First Defendant operates indoor entertainment parks under the Gravity brand through franchise agreements; Mr Jenkinson, the Third Defendant, is a director of the First and Second Defendants. In June 2019 Mr Gibbons, having…
The appellant, Mr John Robert Pascual, lived in Gateshead and had formerly worked on a North Sea oil platform on a high salary until an accident left him unemployable in that industry, though he retained substantial savings and…